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Author(s): Housman, A.E.
Reader(s): West, Samuel
Label: Naxos AudioBooks
Genre: Poetry
Period: 20th Century
Catalogue No: NA0047
Barcode: 9781843794905
Release Date: 01/2011
HOUSMAN, A.E.: Shropshire Lad (A) (Unabridged)
In A Shropshire Lad, A.E. Housman recreates a nostalgic world of lost love, lost youth, thwarted friendships, unfaithful girls, male bonding, untimely death and the uncertain glories of being a soldier. The poems deal with the exuberance of youth—its aspirations and disappointments, its naïve certainties and tragic mistakes. Though written in 1895, it struck a chord with the generation of young men who fought in World War I. It was said that every ‘Tommy’ had a copy in his knapsack. It has never been out of print.
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1 | 1887 From Clee to heaven the beacon burns | 01:25 |
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2 | Loveliest of trees, the cherry now | 00:33 |
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3 | THE RECRUIT: Leave your home behind, lad | 00:59 |
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4 | REVEILLE: Wake: the silver dusk returning | 01:02 |
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5 | Oh see how thick the goldcup flowers | 01:24 |
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6 | When the lad for longing sighs | 00:31 |
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7 | When smoke stood up from Ludlow | 01:10 |
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8 | 'Farewell to barn and stack and tree' | 00:57 |
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9 | On moonlit heath and lonesome bank | 01:18 |
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10 | MARCH: The sun at noon to higher air | 00:55 |
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11 | On your midnight pallet lying | 00:36 |
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12 | When I watch the living meet | 00:39 |
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13 | When I was one-and-twenty | 00:39 |
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14 | There pass the careless people | 00:50 |
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15 | Look not in my eyes, for fear | 00:44 |
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16 | It nods and curtseys and recovers | 00:24 |
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17 | Twice a week the winter thorough | 00:30 |
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18 | Oh, when I was in love with you | 00:19 |
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19 | TO AN ATHLETE DYING YOUNG | 01:18 |
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20 | Oh fair enough are sky and plain | 00:39 |
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21 | BREDON HILL: In summertime on Bredon | 01:25 |
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22 | The street sounds to the soldiers' tread | 00:31 |
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23 | The lads in their hundreds to Ludlow come in for the fair | 01:03 |
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24 | Say, lad, have you things to do? | 00:30 |
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25 | This time of year a twelvemonth past | 00:37 |
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26 | Along the fields as we came by | 00:51 |
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27 | 'Is my team ploughing' | 01:19 |
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28 | THE WELSH MARCHES: High the vanes of Shrewsbury gleam | 01:36 |
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29 | THE LENT LILY: 'Tis spring; come out to ramble | 00:42 |
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30 | Others, I am not the first | 00:45 |
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31 | On Wenlock Edge the wood's in trouble | 01:02 |
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32 | From far, from eve and morning | 00:29 |
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33 | If truth in hearts that perish | 00:44 |
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34 | THE NEW MISTRESS | 01:02 |
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35 | On the idle hill of summer | 00:42 |
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36 | White in the moon the long road lies | 00:45 |
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37 | As through the wild green hills of Wyre | 01:33 |
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38 | The winds out of the west land blow | 00:48 |
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39 | 'Tis time, I think by Wenlock town | 00:33 |
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40 | Into my heart an air that kills | 00:25 |
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41 | In my own shire, if I was sad | 01:24 |
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42 | THE MERRY GUIDE: Once in the wind of morning | 02:17 |
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43 | THE IMMORTAL PART: When I meet the morning beam | 01:59 |
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44 | Shot? so quick, so clean an ending? | 01:27 |
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45 | If it chance your eye offend you | 00:21 |
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46 | Bring, in this timeless grave to throw | 01:01 |
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47 | THE CARPENTER'S SON: 'Here the hangman stops his cart' | 01:13 |
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48 | Be still, my soul, be still; the arms you bear are brittle | 01:16 |
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49 | Think no more, lad; laugh, be jolly | 00:27 |
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50 | Clunton and Clunbury, Clungunford and Clun | 01:03 |
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51 | Loitering with a vacant eye | 00:59 |
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52 | Far in a western brookland | 00:41 |
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53 | THE TRUE LOVER: The lad came to the door at night | 01:29 |
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54 | With rue my heart is laden | 00:22 |
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55 | Westward on the high-hilled plains | 00:39 |
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56 | THE DAY OF BATTLE: 'Far I hear the bugle blow' | 00:40 |
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57 | You smile upon your friend to-day | 00:18 |
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58 | When I came last to Ludlow | 00:20 |
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59 | THE ISLE OF PORTLAND: The star-filled seas are smooth to-night | 00:36 |
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60 | Now hollow fires burn out to black | 00:20 |
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61 | HUGHLEY STEEPLE: The vane on Hughley steeple | 00:57 |
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62 | 'Terence, this is stupid stuff' | 02:52 |
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63 | I Hoed and trenched and weeded | 00:43 |
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Total Playing Time: 57:38